Seeking URL: LotR, child mortality, and post-apoc fiction
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The article began with a quote from LotR movies: "A parent should never have to bury their own child." It pointed out that this wasn't in the books because, at time of writing, this was almost a nonsense statement: you could agree it was tragic, but it happened to everyone. It then went into child mortality rates and how those would shape the structure of society in a post-apoc world, especially one with fantastic elements like magical healing or superpowers.
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* The (male, I'm almost certain) author of the article had written one or more books set in a post-apoc fantasy-ish world, in which the "wizards" (who may have been technomages or something else) were pretty much dicks - because they could get away with it, because families with sick children will indeed slaughter the neighboring tribe to get peaches for the wizard if that will cure their kids of appendicitis. (Not the exact example used in the article.)
* This is several years old, and every variation of keyword and phrase searching I can think of turns up nothing on Google. I suspect the article has fallen past its "recent links to" zone, and won't be discoverable that way. However, name of the author or book(s) might make it find-able.
* Cannot recall if this was on the author's personal blog, a guest post on someone else's blog, or on a shared/community blog setting. However, it was likely a Wordpress, Blogspot, or similar place - it definitely wasn't LJ, and if it doesn't predate Facebook, it certainly predates it being popular outside of college students. This was a blog, not a social-media-site post.
* I remember the layout being blues-and-purples-ish and not hard to read. (I looked at it several times, but apparently counted on my browser just having the tab available.) Could be wrong about the colors; not wrong about "not painful to read" - anything I loved that was painful to read got copied into a Word doc & converted to an ebook format. (I'm thinking the article text was in a column in the center, with the standard book adverts on the right and nav links on the left, but as I said... quite a while ago; could be misremembering details. Also, if it's still around, as opposed to needing Wayback links, it's probably changed format.)
* I had never heard of the author; I remembering looking for the book(s) (can't remember for certain if it was a series or not, but I think it was) and noting them as "potentially interesting" and not bothering to save the details. Zombies may have been involved, which would've been a strong push toward the "don't bother" side of things for me, esp since I normally love post-apoc.
* Article was probably roughly from the period of 2010-2012, judging from what I vaguely associate with it. (E.g. other blog posts that I think of as "related" in that sense of "I think I read them within the same month," but I could easily be off by a year or two.)
More details:
* The (male, I'm almost certain) author of the article had written one or more books set in a post-apoc fantasy-ish world, in which the "wizards" (who may have been technomages or something else) were pretty much dicks - because they could get away with it, because families with sick children will indeed slaughter the neighboring tribe to get peaches for the wizard if that will cure their kids of appendicitis. (Not the exact example used in the article.)
* This is several years old, and every variation of keyword and phrase searching I can think of turns up nothing on Google. I suspect the article has fallen past its "recent links to" zone, and won't be discoverable that way. However, name of the author or book(s) might make it find-able.
* Cannot recall if this was on the author's personal blog, a guest post on someone else's blog, or on a shared/community blog setting. However, it was likely a Wordpress, Blogspot, or similar place - it definitely wasn't LJ, and if it doesn't predate Facebook, it certainly predates it being popular outside of college students. This was a blog, not a social-media-site post.
* I remember the layout being blues-and-purples-ish and not hard to read. (I looked at it several times, but apparently counted on my browser just having the tab available.) Could be wrong about the colors; not wrong about "not painful to read" - anything I loved that was painful to read got copied into a Word doc & converted to an ebook format. (I'm thinking the article text was in a column in the center, with the standard book adverts on the right and nav links on the left, but as I said... quite a while ago; could be misremembering details. Also, if it's still around, as opposed to needing Wayback links, it's probably changed format.)
* I had never heard of the author; I remembering looking for the book(s) (can't remember for certain if it was a series or not, but I think it was) and noting them as "potentially interesting" and not bothering to save the details. Zombies may have been involved, which would've been a strong push toward the "don't bother" side of things for me, esp since I normally love post-apoc.
* Article was probably roughly from the period of 2010-2012, judging from what I vaguely associate with it. (E.g. other blog posts that I think of as "related" in that sense of "I think I read them within the same month," but I could easily be off by a year or two.)
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